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aestas

summer

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Where it lives

Precationes 2 · 43.2/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 10 · 14.84/10k
Eclogarum Liber 4 · 14.61/10k
Conon 1 · 13.62/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Georgicon 12 · 8.48/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 47 · 5.97/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k

Densest 12 of 95 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. aestas — de Vaan

aestas 'summer' [f. /] (P1.+) Derivatives: aestus, -us 'heat; fervor; swell (of the sea)' (Naev.+); aestivus 'of summer, summeiy' (P1.+), aesfivare 'to spend the summer' (Varro+). Pit. *ai$sat-^ *aissu-. PIE *h2eidh-teh2t-, *h2eidh-tu- 'burning, heat'. IE cognates: see s.v, aedes. Most handbooks assume that aestas and aestus show the regular development of PIE *-

2. aestas — Lewis & Short

aestas, ātis, f.akin to ai)/qw = to burn, Varr. L. L. 6, § 9; cf.: aestus, aether, aethra; Sanscr. indh = to kindle, iddhas = kindled; O. H. Germ. eiten = to heat; Germ. Hitze = heat, in an extended sense,

I the summer season, as one half of the year, from March twenty-second to September twenty-second (the other half was hiems, the winter season); cf. Dig. 43, 19: aestas et hiems, nox et dies, Vulg. Gen. 8, 22: in a restricted sense, the summer, the three months from the entrance of the sun into Cancer to the autumnal equinox (the entrance into Libra): Arabes campos et montes hieme et aestate peragrantes, Cic. Div. 1, 42: (formica) parat in aestate cibum sibi, Vulg. Prov. 6, 8: aestate ineunte, at the beginning of summer, Cic. Att. 4, 2: nova, Verg. A. 1, 430: media, midsummer, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 35: jam adulta, Tac. A. 2, 23; so Aur. Vict. Caes. 32, 3 Arntz.: summa, the height of summer, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31: exacta, Sall. J. 65: finita, Vulg. Jer. 8, 20: cum affecta jam prope aestate uvas a sole mitescere tempus est, Cic. Oecon. ap. Non. 161, 2.— With anni, summer-time, Gell. 2, 21: aestate anni flagrantissima, id. 19, 5.—Since war among the ancients was carried on only in summer, aestas is sometimes (like qe/ros in Gr.) used by the histt. for,

II A year, Vell. 2, 47; 82: quae duabus aestatibus gesta, Tac. A. 6, 39; so. te jam septuma portat omnibus errantem terris aestas, Verg. A. 1, 756.—

B Summer air: per aestatem liquidam, Verg. G. 4, 59; id. A. 6, 707.—

C Summer heat: ignea, Hor. C. 1, 17, 3.— *

D Freckles as caused by heat: aestates, Plin. 28, 12, 50, § 185, where Jan. reads testas.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. aestas (scan pp. 42-43; entry #18). Root candidates: *aissu-, *aistu-, *aissat-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. aestas (scan p. 37; entry #247).

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